IPL 2019 Orange Cap, Purple Cap and Points Table Updated Daily

Last year in 2018, Chennai Super Kings won the IPL tournament. With the Chennai’s win in IPL 2018, the team lifted the IPL trophy for the third time. In 2018, Kane Williamson won the Orange Cap as he took 735 runs from 17 matches. The Purple cap was won by Andrew Tye who took 24 wickets from 14 matches. Now the IPL 2019 season is here and here are the updated points table, purple cap table and orange cap table of the current season.

Delhi capitals lead the IPL points table now with 16 points and net RR +0.233. Out of the 12 games played, they have had 8 wins and 4 losses. Chennai Super kings stand next to the Delhi Capitals in the points table. CSK has 16 points with net RR of (-).113. RCB is at the bottom with 8 points and net RR (-) 0.694. Here are the final updated latest IPL points table 2019 with the teams arranged in the order of their match points.

Orange Cup Table

David Warner, the Sunrisers Hyderabad player tops the runs score chart (611 runs from 11 innings) now and wears the orange cup currently. He has a run-rate of 67.88 and his strike rate is 143.76. Shikhar Dhawan stands below to David Warner in runs score. Dhawan scored 451 runs from 12 innings. Here is the Orange cup table with the 10 leading runs scorers of the tournament currently.

Player

Matches Played

Innings

Total Runs

High Score

Run Rate

Strike Rate

David Warner

11

11

611

100*

67,88

143.76

Shikhar Dhawan

12

12

451

97*

41.00

137.08

Jonny Bairstow

10

10

445

114

55.62

157.24

Chris Gayle

10

10

444

99*

49.33

162.04

KL Rahul

11

11

441

100*

55.12

130.08

AB de Villiers

11

11

431

82*

53.87

153.38

Virat Kohli

12

12

423

100

35.25

134.71

Andre Russel

11

10

406

65

58.00

209.27

Quniton de Cock

11

11

393

81

35.72

138.38

Ajinkya Rahane

12

12

391

105*

35.54

139.14

About Orange Cap in IPL

The orange cap is the award reserved for the leading run scorer in an IPL tournament. The orange cap gets handed over as the top scorers change during the course of the tournament and finally who retains it at the end of the tournament will become the orange cap winner of that particular IPL season.

It was on April 25, 2008 the orange cap introduced in IPL. Brendon McCullum is the first player to wear an orange cap in the IPL history, but the first orange cap winner of an IPL tournament is Shaun Marsh (2008).

Purple Cap Table

The pace bowler of Delhi Capitals, Kagiso Rabada is the purple cap wearer now with a total of 25 wickets from 12 matches. He is followed by Yuzvendra Chahal with 17 wickets from 12 matches. Below is the purple cap table with the current purple holder and those ten leading wicket takers listed according to the latest IPL statistics.

Player

Matches

Innings

Runs allowed

Wickets

Economy

Kagiso Rabada

12

12

367

25

786

Imran Tahir

12

12

299

17

650

Yuzvendra Chahal

12

12

362

16

804

Shreyas Gopal

12

12

314

15

730

Deepak Chahar

12

12

338

15

734

Mohammed Shami

11

11

401

14

911

Jasprit Bumrah

11

11

258

13

619

Ravichandran Ashwin

11

11

309

12

718

Chris Morris

8

8

259

12

893

Lasith Malinga

7

7

237

12

917

About Purple Cap in IPL

The purple cap goes to the player who reaps the most wickets in an IPL tournament. Like that of the orange cap, the bowler who takes most wickets during the course of the tournament will wear it during his team’s fielding turn. The bowler stands top in the total wickets taken table after the final will be awarded the purple cap of the tournament at the finals’ awards ceremony.